Description
Following the submission of your BREO requests, now is the time to keep the momentum going on your Major Projects. The next milestone for us is the submission of your draft chapters. Achieving this deadline is an important element of your project process grade and it will help you preserve time for writing the results and discussion in the new year.
On that date I would like to see completed first drafts of the Literature Review (~2,500 words) and Method (750-1,000 words) sections. This may seem like a lot of content, but having completed a BREO form, you are in a good position to transfer much of this information into these sections, and expand the content accordingly. I strongly encourage you to use the next week or two to get the bulk of this done, with assessment weeks approaching, it is better to make progress now rather than try to work on this alongside more intensive exam revision.
Literature Review
Before making extensive progress on the Literature Review, I would like you to either book in for office hours, or email me to outline the sub-headings you will be writing about. The Literature Review should provide a background on the independent and dependent variables on your study, and in good detail discuss experiments that have informed our current understanding of your research area. As a general rule, it is better to describe a few specific experiemental studies in good detail, rather than describe many studies superficially in this chapter.
When you are discussing experimental studies, take the opportunity to demonstrate to the reader that you have full read and understood the paper you are referring to. Seek to give as much detail as you can about the study i.e. Participants – Sex, age, health status, sample size. Experimental design – repeated measures? between groups? Protocol – Preliminary trials, familiarisation, key dependent and independent variables, and frequency of measurements. Once those are outlined, then you can present the key findings from the study and then add your own interpretation and make a comment which states the relevance to your own work.
Method
Within this section, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. In this section you can build upon the detail in the BREO form but please make amendments to the prose so your chapter utilises the past tense. The specific equipment and procedures you are using will have been reported in other papers before, so do not be concerned with borrowing the style/description of this to aid you. You can also break this chapter down further into sub-headings to assist with the structure e.g. Participants, Experimental Design, Independent Variables, Dependent Variables, Statistical Analysis.
Lab Training
If you have not already, please book in with Tom Howes for the training sessions relevant to your experiment. This is an opportunity to upskill and/or revise your technical skills so that the data you collect in the lab is of the highest quality.
As ever, if you have specific questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch
Explanation & Answer
View attached explanation and answer. Let me know if you have any questions.
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Can performing continuous intensity training while wearing a sauna suit in temperate (cool)
conditions elicit similar physiological stimuli for heat adaptation as training in a hot
environment?
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Heat acclimation is an interventional strategy usually carried out for occupational and
athletic purposes. It is typically completed in the weeks or days before undertaking a
physical work or competition in heat stressing environment. Heat acclimation is essential
for improving the capacity of a person to dissipating heat through augmented sweating,
and thus increases the heat storage capacity by means of body temperature reduction, and
decreases the thermal negative sensations.
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Many of the HA interventional mechanisms are finalized within controlled and regulated
environmental labs. However, the heat duration acclimation training, combined with
financial and logistical issues can limiting the prescriptive of laboratory heat acclimation
protocols, which can be disrupting to training quality before the beginning of any
competition? Essentially, there is a reason why only 20% of athletes undertake a
recognized heat acclimation intervention before the start of the IAAF World
Championship despite the forecast of the hot climate.
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A maintained and raised skin temperature, and a higher sweat rate is considered as the
key stimulus for inducement of heat adaption. Research clearly shows that when
conducting equivalent physical exercises from a physiological state and fluid- balance
and wearing of sauna suit (upper-body vinyl) can help to increase the change magnitude
in individual body temperature, and resulting sweat rate(Stevens et al., 2017). The
increased temperature is considerably higher compared to that during exercise
temperature and is similar to that which is observed in a hot environment.
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In another experiment, nine trained athletes ran at 46% of their VO3MAX in an extremely
hot condition (50 Degree Celsius) in a normal garment for training and cooler conditions
(20 Degree Celsius) whilst wearing excessive clothing. Both these exercises increased
physiological strain index (+6.5 and +7.5, respectively).
Methods of Study
Participants
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10 research participants (7 men and 3 women; standard deviating age: 24 + 4 years, mass:
70.45 + 8 kg, stature: 170 +10 cm,surface body area 1.67 + 0.12 m2 and body-fat: body
surface area 16.5 + 7.5% volunteered in the study. However, they all provided written
consent(Dawson et al., 2014). These participants were not exercising in hot conditions for
four months, nor were they on a regular steam, hot or sauna bath users. All of the
participants had not performed any form of strenuous exercise, alcohol and caffeine. The
study was carried in accordance with the university’s governance and ethics regulations.
Future Directions
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It is noteworthy that the gastrointentinal outdoor-based protocol and measurement site
used can help to reduce the core temperature in comparison with what is usually
observable in lab studies. Previous studies have shown that exercising in restricted heatloss garments may replicate thermo-regulatory response to exercising in a hot
environment at 30-45 Degree Celsius. Whilst there was no measurement for the
physiological response regarding outdoor training, the use of additional garments is
highly recommendable for conducting training in heat environment. For this reason,
therefore, the future research should consider investigating the capacity for physical
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training in heat environment. Future research needs to assess and evaluate the capacities
for such described strategies to inducing heat acclimation adaptation by use such
intervention daily for a period of three weeks.
Conclusion
Over dressing in cold training clothing during outdoor athletic cycling in a moderate
environment is a practical strategy to increasing the heat-load of training session through thermoaugmented psychological and physiological straining. Thus, this strategic measure may be
potentially important for serving as an alternative technique to increasing the heat-load for
ergogenic and acclimation outcome. Future study should be an investigation of the effectiveness
of repetitive training in additional garments to establish the chronic molecular and physiological
responses.
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Wearing of Sauna Suit and Temperature Adaptation
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Can performing continuous intensity training while wearing a sauna suit in temperate (cool)
conditions elicit similar physiological stimuli for heat adaptation as training in a hot
environment?
Heat accl...
